MONTGOMERY – The Alabama House on Tuesday passed the state’s proposed $5.9 billion Education Trust Fund Budget with a 51 to 47 vote.

Due to ObamaCare’s forced financial burdens, the budget provides significant funding to protect teachers and support staff from skyrocketing insurance premiums and also prioritizes funding for classrooms and local school districts to help ensure Alabama children are provided the best education possible.

Tough new restrictions on lobbying activities by former officeholders could soon become a reality following Tuesday’s favorable report that was awarded to a substitute ethics bill being carried by State Rep. Mike Ball (R – Madison).

The bill, which was approved by the House Ethics and Campaign Finance Committee, strengthens the state’s “Revolving Door Act” by discouraging legislators from leaving office early to pursue lobbying careers.

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MONTGOMERY – On Wednesday, the Alabama House passed the state’s proposed $1.8 billion General Fund budget with a 80-20 vote.

The budget proposal largely provides level funding for state agencies and includes a $70 million increase for Medicaid as well as increases for the Department of Public Health, the Department of Economic and Community Affairs, and the Department of Forensic Sciences. Also included in the budget is a conditional pay raise for Alabama state employees of up to 4%.

MONTGOMERY — Four commonsense measures introduced in the 2014 Regular Session this week seek to continue the House Republicans Caucus’s impressive four-year record of defending the Right to Life in Alabama.

“It is unfortunate that liberal activist judges on the U.S. Supreme Court have made abortion legal in the United States, but Alabamians are fortunate to have a Republican legislature that continues to protect and prioritize life in our state,” said Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard.

Montgomery – The Alabama House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution including Alabama in the states petitioning Congress to convene a limited Convention of the States under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.

House Joint Resolution 49, sponsored by State Rep. Ken Johnson (R – Moulton), calls for the subjects included in the Convention to be limited to imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and implementing term limits on federal elected officials.